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PLUTO IS A PLANET!
I thought it was Mickey Mouse's dog π€!
IT'S BOTH AT THE SAME TIME
What? As in SchrΓΆdinger's cat? Interesting!
Why does a mouse own a dog? And how come the mouse is also friends with another dog? Whatβs going on there?
Ok Jerry.
Eh, it's more like our definition of what a planet is changed. I still think of Pluto as a planet.
It's a planette
This was my first thought as well!
Pluto is a great test for what type of person someone is.
If someone says Pluto is still a planet. They have a personality where they are immovable and can't accept scientific change and everything has to be how they first learned it.
If they do say pluto is a new kind of dwarf planet they are more accepting of new information and belive in the scientific method and love to be wrong. Since it means we learn something new.
It's a great quick test when meeting new people.
I recently heard that they discovered hundreds of Pluto sizes "planets" beyond Pluto, so they had to decided do we add 100 more planets or just demote Pluto to planetoid and ignore the rest
Yep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_%28dwarf_planet%29
Eris? Didn't Sephiroth kill her?
So presumably NASA is anti-science ?
Because they have redetermined that Pluto is a planet.
Or the third option of they recognize that scientifically Pluto is a dwarf planet and no longer a 'full' planet, but they also anthropomorphize everything to an unhealthy degree and don't want to hurt the feelings of Pluto by saying it isn't a planet anymore
I know - can the person accept hundreds of planets and that ours is less special, or do they need to change a definition (including exceptions) to keep their world view.
Well, Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet doesn't really have anything to do with the scientific method. "Planet" is a manmade concept, we just changed the definition for that classification to avoid having to add the dozens of bodies we discovered since Pluto that would have also met the old definition.